I am on an unlimited plan. I just received a text message from ATT stating that I was approaching the top 5% of bandwidth users and if I continued to use my UNLIMITED bandwidth, they would slow my download speeds. What a joke.
it is based on a percentage, not your usage directly an it only applies to unlimited plans.
I am on an unlimited plan. I just received a text message from ATT stating that I was approaching the top 5% of bandwidth users and if I continued to use my UNLIMITED bandwidth, they would slow my download speeds. What a joke.
That sucks. I lament not getting onboard when it was still unlimited. How can they push the LTE and then tell you not to take advantage at the same time? People sued apple because iphones scratched. I can see ATT getting sued for advertising high speeds, then not letting you use them.
I hear you, but 5GB is a lot of data in 30 days. I agree that they are advertizing fast speeds and they are fast. Bandwidth is not unlimited. Lots of people on the networks. All companies have to manage this somehow.
You'd be surprised if you knew how easy is to go through 5GB of data when your device gives you home-like broadband connection. Everything you used to deprive yourself from doing on a cell phone you'll be able to do on a LTE device perfectly fine.
Guys, it's not your regular HSPA experience...
You'd be surprised if you knew how easy is to go through 5GB of data when your device gives you home-like broadband connection. Everything you used to deprive yourself from doing on a cell phone you'll be able to do on a LTE device perfectly fine.
Guys, it's not your regular HSPA experience...
I download audio and video podcasts and watch Netflix and Google movies in addition to other things. I was driving to Florida and I was using my old Nexus One as a hotspot, and my daughter burned through 1 GB of data in just a few hours watching Netflix on my Galaxy tab. It's pretty easy. I travel too, and some hotels either try to gouge you $15/day for Wifi, or their Wifi isn't much better than dialup.
I hear you, but 5GB is a lot of data in 30 days. I agree that they are advertizing fast speeds and they are fast. Bandwidth is not unlimited. Lots of people on the networks. All companies have to manage this somehow.
Like I said, 5GB is a lot of data! lol!
How is 5GB a month a lot of data if you can burn 1GB of data every few hours, especially if you are on the go all the time?
I hope that was a joke lol
I am sure I have easily gone thru 5gb, but that is because I use wifi at every possible point. If I did have an unlimited plan, I wouldn't be nearly as concerned.
Seriously, when do you find time to go through all that data, what are you doing? By definition it is a lot of data since only about 5% of users hit that. That is 95% of smartphone users on AT&T unlimited plan are not hitting that and we know the regular data plans are not hitting anything close to that.
I think you're failing to see through AT&T's reality distortion field here... Their 5% of highest data users are mostly their 3G users where the speeds in most cases are capped at either 3.6mbps or 7.2mbps. Now with iPhone 4S launch that's slowly shifting to 14.4mbps where their HSPA+ network really caps since most of the metro areas are 16QAM only.
So yes, it's pretty hard to break 5GB on a 3.6mbps or 7.2mbps handset, but when you push 73.6mbps on your skyrocket, how is that comparable to the rest of 3G users?!??
Another example is Verizon where they implement caps only to top 5% of their 3G users and their LTE users aren't affected at all. I average on my verizon LTE line 50GB a month, pushed as high as 90GB. They actually encourage their customers to upgrade to LTE devices and offload their busy 3G network.
What AT&T is doing is a terrible, terrible business conduct. Completely opposite of "customer oriented company"
So, if you do the same things on your fast connection as you would have done on your slow connection you would still be using the same amount of data even though it was much faster.